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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun != Open Archtecture
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.222542.28236@erbe.se>
Date: 16 Dec 90 22:25:42 GMT
References: <36911@cup.portal.com> <5089@trantor.harris-atd.com>
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In article <5089@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:

>In article <36911@cup.portal.com>, johnm@cup.portal.com (John - Madison) writes:

>> - Sun has decided *not* to provide future versions of SunOS to clone
>> makers.  They will instead be forced to buy System V from ATT.   This
>> will allow Sun to produce proprietary systems and claim that the clone
>> manufacturers are not compatible.

>     But Sun will be running SVr4 themselves.  They are pretty much locked
>into SVr4, and in fact, SunOS 5.0 will be SVr4.

As Sun will tell you if you ask, their SVR4 o/s will be *based* on SVR4,
but will also contain numerous proprietary extensions "to ensure our
leadership". Also, the SPARC version of SVR4 that anyone can license from
AT&T will not have the SunOS 4.x compatibility support built-in. Clone
vendors will have to construct that part themselves, if they want to be
able to run programs from SunOS.

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